Was there from the beginning - 3rd post, 3rd post, and 2nd post in each years Thread =)

Only competed in the 1st & 2nd years though - maybe i'll make a return this year!Have so many ideas.... just need the time (and conviction) to see them through.I wish programming wasn't my job - I'd enjoy these competitions so much more! =/

Is it because it's a n^2 ? Or did someone just have an idea, and decided for no reason to have it limited to 4K? Or is some more scientific basis for this number, like research into what humanly can be acheived in small code, logic, graphics etc.?

on a common NTFS disk, 4096 bytes is allocated, even if you dont use all 4096 bytes in that sector. if you're on XP, go create a text file, put a few letters in. then look at the properties. size is probably 10 bytes or whatever, but "size on disk" is 4096 bytes

so in an effort to save disk space, we use 4K. if we used 5k, we'd be taking 8192bytes (8kb) on the disk. that just can't be!!

(note: this is satire. it is actually possible during format to change the allocation unit size to 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K, or 64K)

I'd like to participate, but my fear is I won't beable to create anything I'd be happy with in 4k.

I almost entered for the first time last year, butmy laptop had a coming together with my g/f'sglass of water and sadly all my 4K code wentdown with it :-(

I thought at the time "oh well, this gives me awhole year to improve on my game after startingfrom scratch". But after averaging two hours aweek on the thing for ten months, all I've got toshow for it is a random racing track generator.

Its sits at around 20K, and its not even aninteractive playable game yet. To fit into 4K i'dhave to throw out all the nice SimplexNoise andCatmull-Rom Spline code. But by then it wouldn'tbe able to generate random racing tracksanymore.

Please do participate. All of my games are mostly nonsense, but hey, the more the merrier I'd love to see new participants as well as the old ones. Also, lack of time for several people could turn this into a contest with too few participants, and we wouldn't want that

I'm not in charge here, but from my experience as a contestant (entering my third year now), any game's welcome (as long as it follows the rules, of course).

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